Students Last Name 1 Students Name Instructors Name Course Title Due Date MLA Formatting Papers Using

Microsoft Word 2007 Open a new document by clicking the office button in the upper left of the screen and then selecting New from the dropdown menu. Change the FONT to Times New Roman, 12 point. Using the mouse, select Page Layout on the top bar. Click on Margins and confirm that all four MARGINS are one inch. From Insert on the top bar, select Page Number in the category of HEADER and Footer. Select Top of Page and to the right of that, select Plain Number 3. Type your last name to the left of the number 1 and then hit the space bar once. Finally, click Close Header and Footer right above the right-hand corner of your document. To DOUBLE SPACE, locate the Paragraph tools near the top of your home page. Click on the Line spacing tab and select 2.0. Again, click on the Line spacing icon. If the bottom option reads Remove space after paragraph, then click on that. If the bottom option reads Add space after paragraph, then do nothing. Type the four-line HEADING flush to the left margin. Your full name appears on the top line, your teachers name on the second line, the course title on the third line, and the due date of the paper is on the last line. Think of a TITLE for your paper. To center your title, find the text alignment icons in the Paragraph section. Select the Center icon. Type your title. (Create an interesting,

Students Last Name 2 original title! Do not call your work Essay or Paragraph.) Capitalize the first and last words of the title and all other words except articles, prepositions, and coordinating conjunctions. Do not enclose your title in quotation marks, do not underline it, do not italicize it, and do not boldface it. Properly punctuate someone elses title, however, if you are using it within your own. Begin to type the text of your paper. INDENT the first line of each paragraph one-half inch from the left margin. Do not justify the left margin, and do not add another line of space between paragraphs. Save your work periodically. Whenever you quote, summarize or paraphrase an original source, you must document that source in two places, immediately at the end of the sentence and at the end of your paper on the final page labeled Works Cited. Consult MLA guidelines for further instructions. When you are satisfied with your work, save it, and then print your document with black ink on white, 8 x 11 paper. Print on one side of the paper. Do not make a title page or use a binder. Assemble the documents in reverse order with the final draft on top and previous drafts underneath in the order specified. Fasten all papers together neatly with one staple in the upper left-hand corner. Use a paper clip if the packet is too bulky for a single staple.